It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
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Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.
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Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The ballot is the only safety.
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